Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir
By: Rebecca Carroll
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful st…
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1. All You Can Ever Know
By: Nicole Chung
3.77
Format: 300 pages,
All You Can Ever Know (Catapult, Fall 2018) spans Nicole Chung's transracial adoption, her upbringi… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- adoption
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
2. Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir
By: Rebecca Carroll
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful st… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- adult
- adoption
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- african american
- audiobook
3. A Living Remedy: A Memoir
By: Nicole Chung
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- adoption
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir
4. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By: Lyz Lenz
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
5. One Way Back: A Memoir
By: Christine Blasey Ford
4.30
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires
By: Shomari Wills
3.91
Format: 320 pages, ebook
Between the years of 1830 and 1927, as the last generation of blacks born into slavery was reaching… read more
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- race
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
7. The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption
By: Shannon Gibney
3.87
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part speculative fiction, The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be explores the often sur… read more
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- race
- memoir
- adoption
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America
By: Nefertiti Austin
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In America, Mother = White That's what Nefertiti, a single African American woman, discovered wh… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adoption
- nonfiction
- social justice
- adult
- audiobook
"Becoming a mother forced me to have hope."-Nefertiti Austin, Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America
9. Stranger Care
By: Sarah Sentilles
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
After their decision not to have a biological child, Sarah Sentilles and her husband, Eric, decide … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adoption
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Do you have kids?" strangers asked almost every day. "No," I said, not wanting to explain, because, really, it's an unimaginative question, full of their beliefs about what family means, about who co…"-Sarah Sentilles, Stranger Care
"People who learned Eric and I wanted to adopt a child often told us stories of adoptions gone wrong. The adopted child incapable of attachment. Who became a drug addict, a runaway, who drained bank a…"-Sarah Sentilles, Stranger Care
10. Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
By: Gretchen Sisson
4.38
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mot… read more
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- adoption
- nonfiction
- social justice
- adult
- audiobook
11. But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life
By: Paige Layle
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Autism acceptance activist and TikTok influencer Paige Layle shares her deeply personal journey to … read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"We remain hidden, tucked away behind corporations aiming to change us, pushing supplements and instant cures into the hands of desperate parents looking to make our lives better. We're hidden behind …"-Paige Layle, But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life
12. My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole
By: Will Jawando
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A call to action and a narrative that runs counter to every racist stereotype that thwarts the live… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
13. You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
By: Tarana Burke
4.52
Format: 6 pages, Audio CD
Tarana Burke and Dr. Brené Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organisers, artis… read more
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- race
- memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
"The truth always needs a resting place or it will lie down wherever it sees fit."-Tarana Burke, You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
"At the time, the whispers to keep silent and appear normal were deafening. And so we did. There is no blame here. We were just trying to survive. (Where the Truth Rests)"-Tarana Burke, You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
"Dangerous is the woman who can give herself what she used to seek from others. Limitless is the woman who dares to name herself. The way I see it, shame cannot oppress what acceptance has already cla…"-Tarana Burke, You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
"Systems of white supremacy teach us shame because they have no guilt. Rejecting shame for Black lives means rejecting individual responsibility for structural failures. (Unlearning Shame and Remember…"-Tarana Burke, You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
14. "You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption
By: Angela Tucker
4.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An adoption expert and transracial adoptee herself examines the unique perspectives and challenges … read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- adoption
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
15. Adoption Unfiltered: Revelations from Adoptees, Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents, and Allies
By: Sara Easterly
4.45
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
Reveals the candid thoughts and feelings of those most directly involved in adoptees, adoptive par… read more
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- nonfiction
- adoption
16. Another Word for Love: A Memoir
By: Carvell Wallace
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
17. The Love You Save: A Memoir
By: Goldie Taylor
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings meets Educated in this harrowing, deeply hopeful memoir of family, … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
18. What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption: An Adoptee's Perspective on Its History, Nuances, and Practices
By: Melissa Guida-Richards
4.24
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The White Fragility for transracial adoption--practical tools for nurturing identity, unlearning wh… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- adult
- adoption
"Currently not enough is being done to make sure adoptive parents receive continued education and counseling in transracial adoption to help support them as their child ages. There is some focus on in…"-Melissa Guida-Richards, What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption: An Adoptee's Perspective on Its History, Nuances, and Practices
19. Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
By: Michelle Duster
3.74
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Called “a dangerous negro agitator” by the FBI, and a “brave woman” by Frederick Douglass, an inspi… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
20. Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery
By: Harrison Mooney
4.35
Format: 304 pages, ebook
A narrative that amplifies a voice rarely heard--that of the child at the centre of a transracial a… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adoption
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology
By: Shannon Gibney
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Two teens take the stage and find their voice. . . A girl learns about her heritage and begins to f… read more
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